Skip to content

Posts categorized Society & Culture

Posts Loop

many hands around a bowl of corn
Society & Culture
July 31, 2017 | 03:59 pm

Summer in Malawi brings student researchers closer to community

For the past 15 years, the University’s Malawi Immersion Seminar has offered students a research experience in the remote village of Gowa, carrying out individual projects, and living and working among the community members.

topics: Department of Anthropology, global engagement, malawi, Malawi Immersion Seminar, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, summer-of-research-2017, undergraduate research,
A glass ball perched atop a wooden post reflects a tree in the woods.
Society & Culture
July 10, 2017 | 04:17 pm

Philosopher Randall Curren considers why sustainability matters

In his new book Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters Curren argues that the core of sustainability is the “long-term preservation of opportunities to live well.”

topics: book authors, Department of Philosophy, Environmental Humanities Program, featured-post-side, humanities, Randall Curren, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, sustainability,
woman in a bonnet
Society & Culture
July 5, 2017 | 12:12 pm

Quadcast: Mother of the Church

In her book Mother of the Church, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva, a lecturer with the Susan B. Anthony Institute, describes how Russian emigre Sofia Svechina rose in influence as an adviser to numerous political, social, and religious leaders of her day.

topics: book authors, featured-post-side, QuadCast, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva,
table with three copies of the Gates Commission report
Society & Culture
June 28, 2017 | 10:44 am

Rochester, the draft, and an all-volunteer army

100 years after the Selective Service Act established conscription, we look back on the University faculty and administrators who helped end it.

topics: Department of Economics, featured-post-side, QuadCast, Ron Hansen, Simon Business School,
pink lockers
Society & Culture
June 16, 2017 | 03:23 pm

Unmasking female-centered bullying in schools

An anthropology professor chronicles her multi-year foray into a suburban high school to study female-specific bullying, competition, and aggression, concluding that actions assumed to be benign should be reclassified as violence.

topics: Department of Anthropology, featured-post-side, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Signithia Fordham, Social Sciences, teenagers, violence,
young woman reaching for a paper heart, ignoring a star, money and carrot
Society & Culture
June 14, 2017 | 01:33 pm

What really motivates us

Is it money, power, and fame? Or rather fear and punishment? For nearly 40 years Richard Ryan and Edward Deci, the founders of self-determination theory, have sought to answer the question of human motivation.

topics: Department of Psychology, Edward Deci, featured-post-side, QuadCast, research finding, Richard Ryan, School of Arts and Sciences, self-determination, Social Sciences,
Sgt. Pepper album on turntable
Society & Culture
May 22, 2017 | 04:31 pm

Sgt. Pepper’s lasting impact, 50 years later

“Ironically, an album that might not strictly speaking have been a concept album ended up being the most influential concept album in the history of rock music,” says John Covach, professor of music and director of the University’s Institute for Popular Music.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, featured-post-side, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,
world map with pins
Society & Culture
May 17, 2017 | 08:03 am

Website to help social scientists with field research

When conducting field research around the world, young social scientists can often feel as if they are starting from scratch. A new website envisioned by political scientist Gretchen Helmke will help scholars share resources with other social scientists on the ground.

topics: Department of Political Science, global engagement, Gretchen Helmke, School of Arts and Sciences,
Two Breaking Boundaries participants play a video game in the Humanities Center.
Society & Culture
April 25, 2017 | 11:42 am

Video games and online games breaking boundaries

At the “Breaking Boundaries: Video Games in Teaching, Learning, Research, and Design” event, students and scholars discussed the impact of video games and online games on learning and culture, while getting a chance to play.

topics: featured-post, Jayne Lammers, Joseph Loporcaro, School of Arts and Sciences, video games, virtual reality, Warner School of Education,